it sucks that we live in a timeline where the sentence, "I swear to fucking god if the Israeli apartheid state is the reason why there's cocomelon in my recommended, I'm going to war, I'm strapping the fuck up" is something I can find myself saying, unironically

on that note, if anyone can advise me on how to fix my sidebar, that would be appreciated

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

My recommendation is to start with these four addons:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hbomb-youtube-censorship-addon/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/remove-youtube-shorts/

Delete garbage and random videos that are unlike your normal watching (especially hate watch videos linked from here or social media), and then just be aggressive about hitting the Don't Recommend Channel every single time you see something you dislike on the sidebar and homepage.

[–] GingusBingus@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i have ublock, the other three sound promising though

it's super weird, I was watching a video on Israeli war crimes and then fuckin BAM the sidebar was all kids content and YouTube movies

my homepage is fine and normal, but the sidebar is still the same shit, and it's like the same set list of videos too so i think it's just broken

i clicked not interested for all of them and the list changed to just another list of kids stuff so hopefully the add-ons will help

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Not being tracked by cookies or being logged out of your account will suddenly make everything awful. If it doesn't know exactly who you are, it'll show you nothing but the worst videos the platform has to offer.

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